Gail Collins Quotes About Tea Party

Quotes about: Tea Party

• If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Party, Believe

  "An Ethnic Map". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 8, 2013.

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  Gail Collins

  Party, People, Tea

  "What the Tea Party Really Wants". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 01, 2010.

• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Humble, Organization

  "The Taxman Cometh". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2013.

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